Chapter 4

(Callie's point of view)

Dr. Miranda Bailey kept looking over at Callie, staring her down from across the Attending's Lounge.

Callie looks up, irritated, "Jeez Bailey! What?"

"Torres, you have been running around this hospital for almost four weeks with this bad-ass attitude, and not your normal 'cardio-goddess-bad-ass-surgeon-attitude', but this mean, bitter, 'yelling-at-nurses-and-interns-for-no-reason-bad-a ss attitude', and you need a Miranda Bailey attitude check!" said Bailey pointedly.

"What the hell Bailey? You and everyone else can just back off! I AM FINE; I JUST NEED SOME FREAKING SPACE!" Callie screamed at her friend.

Bailey gives her a firm look, "Have you talked to your wife yet Torres? Even tried to fix your marriage?"

"And how exactly am I suppose to do that Miranda Bailey?" Callie looks at her, exasperated.

Bailey rolls her eyes. "Torres, you go up to your wife, the one you married, you know, at the ceremony I presided over, and you tell her you're angry, and she was wrong, but that you aren't going to let her win, that you are going to make her stick out her vows and fix the mess she created."

Callie gave Bailey an angry glare, but there were tears pooling in her chocolate brown eyes.

"I don't know how, Bailey, I just don't know how…all I feel right now is pain…and betrayal because Arizona was the one who caused this immense heartache I experience with every breath…and it just hurts…"

Bailey's gaze softened, "I know you are hurt Torres, and you have a right to be, no one would ever say you didn't have a right to be…but I have been here through it all, the marrying George thing, and then the fling with Mark thing, but Callie, when you met Arizona, it was no longer a 'thing', it was THE THING, and everyone with eyes could see you and Robbins are perfect for each other…so all I'm saying is don't let one mistake ruin the one thing that means the most to you in this world."

Maybe Bailey is right…thought Callie as she left the Attending's Lounge, a look of steel and determination covering her face.